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6:45 AM ET, March 1, 2019

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New York Times:
Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials …
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Washington Post:
Trump demanded top-secret security clearance for Jared Kushner last year despite concerns of John Kelly and intelligence officials  —  President Trump early last year directed his then-chief of staff, John F. Kelly, to give presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner a top-secret security clearance …
Discussion: New York Times, The Week and Raw Story
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
House Intel Will Call Trump Org Moneyman Allen Weisselberg To Testify  —  The intelligence committee has indicated for months it intends to follow Trump's money.  Allen Weisselberg keeps the Trump Organization's receipts.  —  The House intelligence community intends to call …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Michael Cohen's perjury problem: Witnesses refute testimony about not wanting White House job  —  View Latest Opinions >>  —  Michael Cohen, the disgraced former lawyer for President Trump, repeatedly and aggressively lobbied for a job in the White House but was rejected …
New York Times:
Michael Cohen's Testimony Opens New Phase of Political Turbulence for Trump  —  A small group of Republican strategists opposed to President Trump, branding themselves Defending Democracy Together, quietly conducted polling and focus groups last fall to gauge whether the president was vulnerable to a primary challenge in 2020.
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump's money man draws unwelcome spotlight  —  President Donald Trump's top money man, Allen Weisselberg, has long managed Trump's global business while shunning the blinding spotlight his boss commands.  —  Now, with Democrats demanding Weisselberg come to Capitol Hill to answer their questions …
Discussion: Raw Story and Splinter
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Went to Vietnam, and Michael Cohen Made It Hell  —  On a humiliating twenty-four hours for the President.  —  During his testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on Wednesday, Michael Cohen raised his bushy eyebrows and nodded emphatically as he read …
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House Oversight seeks interviews with Ivanka Trump, Don Jr.
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
2016 video shows Michael Cohen lied to Congress about not wanting a Trump administration job
Billy House / Bloomberg:
House Democrats to Probe Trump Attacks on FBI, Courts, Media
Discussion: Raw Story
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Cummings: House Oversight will seek interviews with Trump Jr., Ivanka
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and POLITICUSUSA
Samantha Vinograd / The Daily Beast:
Hanoi Summit Failed Because Trump Refuses to Prep  —  Trump hates to prepare and likes to negotiate from the gut.  The Hanoi humiliation with Kim Jong Un was the direct result.  —  Nothing about the Hanoi summit's outcome is a surprise.  The writing was on the wall, the president just refused to read it.
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump got played by Kim Jong Un — again  —  Trump administration officials constantly say the foreign policy establishment's decades-long failure with North Korea meant there was no choice but to give Trump's fresh, personal, top-down method a fair trial.  Today the verdict is in.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The GOP performance at the Cohen hearing was a study in moral corruption  —  At the Hanoi summit, perhaps following a champagne toast officially welcoming North Korea to the nuclear club, I imagine President Trump and Kim Jong Un sitting down to watch the Michael Cohen hearing.
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Forget Hanoi.  Trump has already done irreparable damage to America's reputation.  —  Yes, the details were engrossing.  The photograph of the empty lunch table where President Trump and Kim Jong Un were supposed to celebrate the deal they never signed.  The menu of the meal that they did consume …
Discussion: Esquire
HuffPost:
Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Masterful Interrogation Of Michael Cohen  —  The questions that won the New York congresswoman praise were the combined product of committee staff expertise, collaboration and oratory skills.  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) went viral again yesterday.
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
‘This is not a day at the beach’: Pelosi tells moderate Dems to stop voting with GOP  —  House Democrats held an emotional debate behind closed doors Thursday over how to stop losing embarrassing procedural battles with Republicans — a clash that exposed the divide between moderates and progressives.
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House Democrats explode in recriminations as liberals lash out at moderates
Discussion: Axios
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ilhan Omar Accuses Israel Hawks of ‘Allegiance to a Foreign Country’  —  Earlier this month, Representative Ilhan Omar tweeted, “It's all about the Benjamins, baby!” in response to a report about AIPAC, a pro-Israel organization.  Omar's tweet echoed a longstanding anti-Semitic trope …
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Emily Larsen / checkyourfact.com:   FACT CHECK: Ilhan Omar Says It's A ‘Myth’ That Trans Women Have A ‘Direct Competitive Advantage’ In Powerlifting
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:   Unrepentant Ilhan Omar suggests Jews who criticize her anti-Semitic statements are doing …
Jeffrey Cimmino / Washington Free Beacon:
Omar on Anti-Semitic Tweets: I Did Not Apologize for Being Anti-Semitic
Discussion: RedState and The Intercept
Washington Post:
GOP opposition to emergency declaration grows as Trump warns lawmakers  —  GOP opposition to President Trump's emergency declaration at the border grewin the Senate Thursday, even as Trump warned that fellow Republicans who vote to overturn it are putting themselves “at great jeopardy” politically.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans pressure Trump to back down on border emergency
Discussion: TheBlaze, Talking Points Memo and Axios
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Tom Udall and Susan Collins introduce Senate disapproval of Trump's border security emergency
Discussion: Tennessee Star and Breitbart
Page Six:
Brian Williams may score top time slot after late-night rating success … Brian Williams could come back from TV news exile, Page Six is told.  —  The anchor was booted from the “NBC Nightly News” in 2015 after it was revealed that he'd embellished some stories with fictional details …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Adam Entous / New Yorker:
How a Private Israeli Intelligence Firm Spied on Pro-Palestinian Activists in the U.S.  —  Hatem Bazian, a veteran pro-Palestinian activist in his fifties, lives with his family on a quiet street in North Berkeley, near the campus of the University of California, where he lectures.
Discussion: Corey Robin
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Electoral College Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy  —  It has not stood the test of time.  Quite the opposite.  —  It's still well under the radar, but the movement to circumvent the Electoral College gained ground this week.  On Sunday, Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado …
Raoul Wootliff / The Times of Israel:
Netanyahu to stand trial for bribery and breach of trust, pending hearing  —  AG's decision is legal bombshell ahead of April 9 elections, marks first time in Israel's history that serving PM is told he faces criminal charges; premier to speak at 8 p.m.  —  In a move that drastically shakes …
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New York Times:
Prosecutor Moves to Indict Netanyahu on Corruption Charges
 
 
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